iOS 5: Complete list of 200+ New Features

We saw top 20 features of new 200 features that were announced on June 6 by Apple at their WWDC keynote event. Things look pretty for this next mobile OS. Dev-Team also successfully achieved to jailbreak this new iOS 5 but that work is still under progress and needs a lot of time before we actually make use of the same.

I am trying to gather a list of all 200 new features (or may be more) and posting them here. I will update the list as I get hold of them. Remember, these new features are part of the iOS 5 and does not mean that all the features applies to iPhone or iPod. Many of them are for iPad only. According to latest iOS 5 Beta 1 release and tests done by some developers, there are some features that might just not be available for iPhone 3GS but are available for iPhone 4, which is a sad news for 3GS users.

Custom Gestures: Create and save custom gestures. Mainly for motor-disables persons for use with AssistiveTouch accessories

Swipe-Left can let you browse through day-view one-by-one in Calendar

FaceTime without Sim card: FaceTime can now be activated and used either via a phone number or email address (Apple ID)

Unknown Caller details: When received a call from number that is not on contacts – the display also shows city name associated with the area code. Currently it shows in recent calls list only (I think I have seen this feature before on 4.2.1. Did you? )

Vibrate Alert for sent & received emails (What is they come-and-go the same time? Confusing?)

Find My iPhone: This is available as a part of iCloud integration with an option to disable it. (Thanks Michael for confirmation)

Scrolling Titles for YouTube videos

Double tap the home button on YouTube while watching a video to see who uploaded that video (Thanks @JohnothanVincentCrook for pointing it out)

HD YouTube video if connected to 3G

Option to disable HQ (HD) video playback over 3G

Take pictures using headphone remote: If you have headphone with remote them it is possible to take picture using Volume UP button. (Very useful if you have a tripod. Please confirm if anyone saw this!)

Animated GIF image support for iMessage. Does not animate in Photos.app

Hold and drag events from within different dates or time

Tapping and holding back button in Safari will show-up visited website history (iPad only)

Current time on Calendar if in landscape mode

New voices for Voice-Over

Option to display Stock & Weather widgets in Notification Center

Add family relations to contacts.

Restrictions with password required for purchases if enabled

Enable / Disable option for voice-dial if the phone is set to security with pass-code lock.

Purchase history on app store

Automatically set time for iPod Touches

Auto Correct & Spell Check are independent options.

Broadcast song information on devices (like car stereo) when connected over Bluetooth

New keyboard with prominent #(hash-tag) and @ (mention) buttons for Twitter app like we have a prominent ‘.com’ button for Safari address bar.

iPod app renamed to Music: How could I missed it writing here! It’s there on a screenshot on other post here

Enhanced Mail.app even in offline mode and sync back when online (like for deleted emails)

Help center: Learn more about every option under settings app to explore more about it (like Nokia has?)

New notification alerts within mail app if you forgot to write a subject line (Similar to Gmail!)

Hourly Weather Forecasts: Tap the current day and it will display hour-by-hour weather forecast. (This is separate from hourly weather update mentioned above)

Third-party Cables: Support for almost all third-party TV-out cables. No need to download Resupported from Cydia. This would be one of the major features if true. (Can someone without jailbroken iPhone confirm this?)

(Custom) gesture-based lock-screen (Ability to define a custom gesture to unlock iPhone without need of a pass-code. This is not confirmed but rumored to be included in later releases of iOS 5. Do you see any benefit?)

Double tap the home button on lock screen to launch YouTube videos (Received an email about it. It was nice to have double tapping to play music. Why would they change? Someone please confirm if this is correct ) This is not correct. Instead it gives iPod controls and Take picture from camera options. Thanks JohnothanVincentCrook for confirming this.

SMS tones sound like they have been shortened than those were provided on iPhone 4 (Anyone felt it that way?)

While reading an email – swiping right would open a list of messages and swipe left would bring back to the open email message again. (Like if you’re reading an email from Inbox, it will take you to Inbox)

If you have multiple email accounts configured in Mail.app – swipe left or right from one’s mailboxes folder list, it will take you to another account’s mailboxes. (from Google Mail to Hotmail or back)

iTunes App: Support for match & find songs based on previous song purchases.

Free upgrade to 256 kbps bit-rate for purchased songs if backing up on iCloud

Support for multiple audio devices (Could not understand exact meaning of this)

Mirror iPhone 4 on Apple TV (Someone with Apple TV please confirm)

Skip tracks by swiping left – right on album art itself when not on lock screen (iPad only)

The name of the person that respond, appears in small light blue text directly above the response when SMS is sent to a group. (Thanks Melvin Baskin for emailing this)

Drag Keyboard on iPad: Drag keyboard up / down the screen wherever it is needed. It works for split keyboard as well.

The following are iOS 5 Beta 2 Features

Hide keyboard in Messages: This is new and good. While in conversations, just tap outside keyboard and pull ‘up’ to scroll and it hides the keyboard.

Set custom tone for Reminders

Newly designed classic pop-up notifications. Glossy. Takes the full width of the screen.

‘Slide to View/Reply': Whenever you get this new classic pop-up for new message. After a certain interval if you don’t respond, the same goes to notification center in a drawer.

Change in notification behavior. It appears as classic first then goes in to a notification center’s drawer. (Mostly under testing and review I guess. They should revert back to Beta 1 behavior)

WiFi sync displays that is being synced like apps, songs and their names. Like in iTunes.

Notification center displays Calendar tasks for the day continuously until they trigger. (Otherwise it used pop-up on scheduled time only.) . More options for this under Settings.

Wireless sync on Windows, in-app and website videos works on AirPlay (This was mentioned above before but works now)

The following are iOS 5 Beta 5 Features

Hearing Aid Mode: Under Accessibility settings for better audio output for every function that takes place on the phone.

New Camera Button: There is a new camera button on Photos.app that takes us back to Camera instead of a ‘Done’ button (on OS prior to this) to close the Camera Roll.

Microphone button added for Nuance Speech-to-text alongside space-bar key. Not yet active but should be in next beta. (This is in continuation with point 176 above )

With iOS 5 beta 5 on the iPod Touch 4th Gen, if you enable ‘Change with buttons’ under sounds in settings, when you use a volume button it now calls it ‘Sound Effects’instead of ‘Ringer’ (Thanks icey590 for the info)

The following are iOS 5 Beta 6 Features

Application Updates in Background: Ability to update installed applications when an update is available without closing iTunes AppStore. It works when you open AppStore and navigate to ‘Purchased Apps’. Superb little addition that finally takes care of oldest iOS annoyance

Built-in Earthquake Notification for Japanese Users: Apple has recently added a special safety feature for Japanese users after a massive devastating earthquake hit japan earlier this year. Japanese users can enable or disable this notification which is continuously connected to Japan’s earthquake warning system and can show warnings in minutes, seconds before the earthquake. It may eat-up lot of battery power due to its continuous data fetching from the warning system. But it’s a great feature added by Apple to show they care about safety. (Via 9to5mac)

New Cards app: Compose, Send, Print beautiful cards to beloved ones. Printing service is also available from none other than Apple itself. Shipping, Push-notifications from UPSC about the shipment. (The world is trying to save paper. Somebody please tell Apple)

Artificial Intelligence called Siri: (This feature is initially available in iPhone 4S but Apple might port it to iPhone 4 due to heavy public demand. If they don’t – I guess jailbreakers can port it just like they ported multi-tasking. Siri should get shipped in OS irrespective of the device so its only matter of enabling it from default disabled mode.) I have this feature covered under speech-to-text but I am putting it here because it looks like more than that. We can actually order something and Siri responds to our requests. She just does not listen but thinks upon it. This is a typical Apple kind of innovation that keeps them on-top. No mobile phone has this feature. Watch the Video here

Enhancement on Exchange accounts that have Mail disabled, now receive calendar invites with notifications and ability to accept/decline/tentatively respond. (Previously, if mail was disabled you would not receive calendar/meeting invites, the meeting would merely show up on your calendar as tentative, and even then it only shows up if the invite was received & added to the calendar in Outlook running on a laptop etc.) As emailed by Roland Theron

More coming soon

iOS 5 Features Video Demo

Note

I will keep updating this post. If you came across any new features other than mentioned above then please do let me know via contact form here.As heard from different developers those got hold of & installed iOS 5 beta 1 says that Apple might have not yet added all 200 features in recently released iOS 5 Beta 1. Hence the list above may not reach the 200 mark but let’s see how much we can get hold of though. Most of the features looks like to picked from different Cydia apps that were available for jailbroken phones. Apple seems like confirming the closet they had earlier. Lots of features still not available but lets wait and see. Apple needs to revamp iOS even more like they’re doing this time if they really want to stand alive fighting the battle with Android.

Update #1

Apple released iOS 5 Beta 2 with few bug fixes and UI tweaks. Some of the features found in Beta 1 are modified in Beta 2. They might work little differently such as Notifications. They have changed the function. But lets see – it could be just for a trial and feedback! I will keep you posted Enjoy.

Update #2

Apple released iOS 5 Beta 3 – again with few bug fixes, enhancements etc. This is available for download & install for registered UDIDs. I hope this is pretty close to what iOS5 will be if not any other major development. We still do not have anything concrete on Speech-to-text feature.

Update #3

Beta 4 was released for iOS 5 by Apple as their first ever OTA - Over-The-Air update. This is going to be one of the best features of iOS where we would not require to download 700 MB installation file while the actual change is only 10 MB. Many issues and bugs have been fixed but there are plenty of bugs still laying around iOS 5 and fixing those should be the first priority now as September is around the corner.

Update #4: Beta 5

iOS 5 Beta 5 is released today for developers via OTA updates like we saw in Beta 4. It takes only about 10 minutes to upgrade to this version (Thanks to OTA technology). iOS 5 with Beta 5 seems more smoother than the earlier version which is pleasing. There are some bug fixes which was expected and some enhancements are made. (See the list above). As I mentioned above and my previous post that Apple is including the Nuance Speech-to-Text engine in iOS 5. Now in this beta we can see a Microphone button added along side the space-bar. I am sure there is going to be a Beta 6 soon to test this as well once their deal is final with Nuance. This new feature will apparently be called as ‘Apple Assistant’.

Update #5: Beta 6

Just 2 weeks after beta 5 Apple released beta 6 to developers with many fixes and enhancements. The release date is coming soon and I think this should be end of beta series and not beta 7. Comes as a 144mb OTA update package, this build contains a lot of noticeable speed improvements including much better & smoother scrolling. This beta will expire on September 29. We should expect a beta 7 or GM release very soon.

Update #6: Beta 7

iOS 5 Beta 7 is available as OTA update of about 70MB. This version too fixes few bugs from earlier versions and has its own inside! WiFi sync is now working fine on multiple (authorized) Macs using iTunes account. I am sure there will be Beta 8 & Beta 9 before GM build starts. iOS 5 cannot be launched in September (looking into current situation.)

Update #7: GM (Gold Master) release

Apple is reportedly seeding the iOS 5 GM (Gold Master) build to overseas assemblers starting from September 23. I do not understand the provision of GM release to assemblers when there are several bugs present in beta versions and even when developers haven’t seen any Gold in it.

I am expecting a bug-free – iOS, nuance speech-to-text and iMessage etc in next beta 8 before anything more.

Update #8

New iPhone launch event is now confirmed for October 4, 2011. We can expect a demo of iOS 5 running on it. Also, new iPhone should be available for delivery in October and we can expect that day as iOS 5 release date.

Update #9

As I wrote at top of this page – iOS 5 will be available for update on October 12, 2011. There are two applications added to this OS which are Cards and Friends – Family! Read details and see iPhone 4S demo video here.

Update #10 (GM 1 release)

Okay, after some handful, eyeful of sleep – I am back. iOS 5 GM is now seeded. The build looks (almost) complete with many features now enabled by default. Many fixes are included already, but will wait and see. Do let me know if you come across any bugs. This version is jailbreakable using new Redsn0w but only tethered. (Mostly for developers only)

Update #11 (Sad day)

Mr Steve Jobs died at the age of 56. He brought us closer to latest technology and innovations & I am sure the world will continue to follow his path tomorrow. We will never ever forget you.

Update #12 Regarding Upgrade

I received few emails asking for whether they should upgrade to iOS 5 upon release. So, I thought of sharing my view here. Latest GM build looks stable.

If you’re on official carrier (and plans to be there for 1 year) or if you’re using factory unlocked iPhone then you can enjoy this new iOS update immediately on release.

But, if you plan to change your carrier or sell your iPhone on eBay or is using ultrasn0w unlocked iPhone then do not upgrade to iOS 5. Not even by a mistake. I will update again when it is the right time.

Update #13

iOS 5 is now available for download through iTunes 10.5 – Do install and do share your thoughts. Jailbroken and ultrasn0w unlocked iPhone users should stay away from this release as of now. Enjoy

Update #14: iOS 5 Firmware Download Links

In case you had problem downloading the firmware then use these links for download using browser. You can also download these and use later for unlocking when redsn0w and sn0wbreeze tools are ready to jailbreak + unlock using ultrasn0w

Update #14: Siri ported to iPhone 4

Update #15: iOS 5.0.1 Beta

Apple seeded minor version of newly released iOS 5 to fix unpopular battery drain issue. Other features of 5.0.1 are, Siri voice input compatible with Australian users, multi-touch gestures for iPad are back (I have seen few complaints about it in comments) and many security fixes.

iOS 5.0.1 is not yet released to public.

Update #16: iOS 5.0.1 Released

Apple just released iOS 5.0.1 for public which should fix the battery drain problem. Stay away if you’re looking for un-tethered jailbreak which is coming soon.

Update #17: iOS 5.1 Released

Yesterday, Apple launched The New iPad 3 & along with the new update to the iOS 5.1! So, What are the new additions in this version of the iOS?

iOS 5.1 includes several improvements & bug fixes:

Major redesign for Camera app on iPad

Siri is now available in for Japanese… Now our Japanese friends can have fun talking to Siri :). Expect some issues in initial roll-out.

Ability for Dictation on The New iPad! It is not Siri… because this feature seems more productive

Ability to delete photos from the Photo Stream

Camera shortcut will always be visible on Lock Screen for iPhones and iPod touch (4th gen)

Camera face detection highlights all detected faces

Several bug-fixes affecting battery life

Clearer and louder audio on iPad for TV shows and/or Movies

Podcast playback speed control and a 30 seconds rewind for iPad

Fixed an occasional audio drop issue for outgoing calls

Genius Mixes and play-lists for iTunes Match users

People looking to jailbreak & unlock their iPhone, iPod or iPad should stay away from upgrading to iOS 5.1

Update #18: iOS 5.1.1 available!

Its available and already possible to apply untethered jailbreak. You can read this guide only for jailbreak. Read this tutorial for jailbreaking & unlocking iPhone 3GS with iOS 5.1.1

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acliff

It also improved on multilingual support. The sorting for foreign languages is much better. Contacts are not mixed with proper ordering even with foreign characters. I used to have to use PhoneBook+ for looking up contacts, now, the Apple iOs Contacts works 90 per cent of the time. But iOs5 is great for automatic backup, but created a mass with synchronization among multiple PC, creates duplicates. So, have to use some clean up programs such as PhoneBook CleanMaster to restore.

Icky chicken licks

any news on ios 5.1 cause im curious?

Mr. M

@Icky chicken licks iOS 5.1 was released to developers

Icky chicken licks

@Mr. M cool. Any new features?

Mr. M

@Icky chicken licks not sure yet I will do some research, you do some too

Icky chicken licks

@Mr. M As far as I can tell I don’t c anything new. You?

Mr. M

@Icky chicken licks @mr what I think might happen is they fix major battery issues they didn’t fix in 5.0.1

Mr. M

@Icky chicken licks @mr DUDE DUDE DUDE! I found a new FETURE in 5.1! It’s only one but it’s the ability to delete photos from photo stream

Icky chicken licks

@Mr. M awesome I really do hope that this update is what totally fixes iOS 5

Icky chicken licks

@Mr. M @mr you need to check this out iphoneza(dot) co(dot) za(slash)IconSettings

Mr. M

@Icky chicken licks @mr I knew about this already but if anyone who reads this is wondering its a jailbreak FETURE that doesn’t require jailbreak. It puts an icon on your screen to take you to a certan setting in the settings app, it requires ios 5 and up.

Icky chicken licks

@Mr. M @mr
How are you liking iOS 5.1 so far?

Icky chicken licks

@Mr. M
How are you liking iOS 5.1 so far?

JustinLee

OK.. Here’s the thing. This problem comes suddenly. My iPhone just stop sending message, when I clicked ‘send’, the message does not really send and it keep show ‘sending’ like 1 hour and forever. It does not send at all. And i cant even receive text too.

When i tried calling, dial a number and press the green button ‘call’. the button does not work. I pressed and pressed and pressed. Is like the button is not working. And then I clicked my contacts and press a contact name and the screen turn to normal calling screen. But there is no ringing and no sound at all. I tried cancel it and it shows canceling call like forever. I cant cancel the call too.

I on/off my iPhone and took out my Sim card and is not working.

And guess what? When i took out my Sim card, is still appear 4 bars of line.

This is not my Sim card problem and not network problem. I tried putting in the other phone and it works fine. This is the second time, I tried restore last time and every back to normal. But now it comes again. PLEASE HELP ME!! hope u understand what i”m trying to say..

Mr. M

@JustinLee you need to take it to an apple store and see what they say. I don’t have an iPhone but that is the best advice I can give.

Mr. M

In safari, if you are on a page, you can go to the search bar and use finder for what you are looking for on that page.

Maikerukun

My apologies, and I have linked DIRECTLY BACK TO YOU AND THIS SITE/ARTICLE! which is something I thought I done in the first place, it was like 4am and I just randomly through it up to settle an argument. Sorry about that If you would like me to take it down email me at [email protected] and let me know and I will, no problem.

My question concerns incoming text messages. I want to hear a ringtone when a text arrives and I want that tone to repeat up to 10 times. Using Settings/Notifications/Messages I have set “Repeat Alert” for 10 times. Using Settings/Sounds/Text Tones I have picked my tone of choice (the obnoxious Horns) and Vibrate is On. And yet, I can watch a text come across and it makes no noise. What Is Up?

AlexanderKhokhlov

Check the Ring/Silent switch and Ringer volume.

Mr. M

Man someone had some typing to do.

Si1ve12andblack

I have iPad 1 and the multi touch with 4 fingers for switching between multiple apps doesn’t work. Neither does the 5 fingers to close app. Anyone else experiencing this or knows what’s wrong? I am running ios5

Brown Eyed Girl

@Si1ve12andblack

Sorry … Those upgrades are only on iPad 2

quanghuy.ht

I use ipad1 too and the multi touch gestures works perfectly fine. maybe u haven’t enable it in the setting app?

Thanks for all of the exciting info. I’ve looked everywhere. Can’t find the ability to change frequency of iTunes password prompt.

Ragamorph

@Brown Eyed Girl
Under General> Restrictions. It’s toward the bottom.

Brown Eyed Girl

@Ragamorph
Thanks …. Is Siri only on 4S ?

TechZoomOrg

@Brown Eyed Girl as of now, yes due to hardware requirement for siri to work. We can expect Siri for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 through jailbreak tweak.

wolfadex

Apple didn’t make Siri, they bought it. Just like iTunes was bought by Apple.

TechZoomOrg

@wolfadex True. They dropped Nuance speech-to-text which was earlier reported. The deal couldn’t go through I guess because one of the Beta build had Nuance type feature

dancincat

at the very least we should be able to purchase an app that has live weather and clock icons in the app store???

dancincat

There is no mention of “live clock” and “live weather”…. I don’t understand why apple would choose to leave the clock and weather icons non-functioning as they are. There are several useful features that are still missing but overall iOS5 is a definite major improvement

TechZoomOrg

@dancincat Apple is selectively avoiding Android features while selectively picking few

him2gud07

why didn’t u tell ppl you can delete recents numbers called one by one now. or did i missed that.

TechZoomOrg

@him2gud07 you missed it

Icky chicken licks

i neeed the ios 5 touch 4g download link pleeeeease!!

JasonWilliams

52-54 (4 finger gestures) are ipad 2 only. I’m thinking of a single finger gesture for all the things that ipad 1 can’t do.

guitarzan

“Ignore bullet number on left. I had to keep it to get continued pointer numbers.”

If you want an ordered list to start at a number other than one, simply add the “start” attribute, like so:

I will implement it very soon. unfortunately, there are too many things happening around :). Thanks a ton @guitarzan for providing the resource. Cheers

TechZoomOrg

@guitarzan changed it thx

guitarzan

No problem. Glad to give back in my own tiny way. Thanks for this list.

byronrode

Crop and resets reduction are available on the 3GS via edit with Beta 6 so I would imagine they will be there with the GM release.

byronrode

Red Eye Reduction*

steelneil81

Number 93
I have ios 5 GM but can’t seem to download more than one app at a time. Everytime I tap install it takes me to the homescreen. Do I need to change a setting somewhere first? I can’t see anything.

JohnothanVincentCrook

@steelneil81 same here an it’s not in the settings either I can’t find a way

Icky chicken licks

who thinks apple should make a game system

Reason 1 apple is the leader in complex graphics

reason 2 reason 2 ps3 needs some real competition

cons probably very expensive

AOTU1991

Will everything be released at the same time tomorrow? IOS 5, iCloud, OSX Lion 10.7.2 and iTunes 10.5?

JohnothanVincentCrook

193 is wrong it doesnt give you the gesture unlock option all you have is the password and the passcode eg 0089 (passcode)

AHMEDHODZIC

Apple should make a social networking site like facebook

smulji

@AHMEDHODZIC

that would make sense wouldn’t it? Only problem is first, Facebook has like 600 million users. Second, with all those people having much of their life up there plus the fact that all their friends are on there, what are the chances of them switching?

Facebook has become a very sticky site. It’s very difficult for other social networking sites to attract users away from Facebook. The only legit challenger I’m seeing so far is Google+.

Another option which I always believed is why don’t Google & Apple merge? You have the best of hardware / software & services. They have similar cultures in that they’re big companies which in many ways act like star-ups.

TechZoomOrg

@smulji@AHMEDHODZIC That’s not likely to happen. Android and patent law-suits which take place on different corporate levels has reduced the chances of this happening. Now everyone is focusing on their own identity and Apple will never go for a JV with any giant company. Thats why Google+Motorola deal took place. Google has opted for Moto for hardware. http://techzoom.org/google-acquires-motorola-huge-but-whats-next/

AHMEDHODZIC

Youre rightt

JustinLee

Wait.. About#252, even iphone 4 will have ‘siri’?

TechZoomOrg

@JustinLee Apple is already working on porting this to iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS. Hope we get that soon through iOS update.

@TechZoomOrg i’m quite afraid that if i update my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 it will slow down my iPhone. Will that happen? Sorry.. I’m quite a bit paranoid..

TechZoomOrg

@JustinLee yeah, its difficult to get Siri on Oct 12. But you never know what Apple can come up with

TechZoomOrg

@JustinLee iOS 5 is also releasing on 3GS without some of the features. iPhone 4 is much better. iOS 4 with multi-tasking slowed down iPhone 3G.

You can always wait, see other devices on iOS 5 and then take a call.

JohnothanVincentCrook

im running ios 5 GM on my iphone 4 (gsm) and it doesnt slow it down only thing is the battery goes a bit faster but thats a little price to pay for an OS thats better (a lot better) than ios 4

smulji

@TechZoomOrg@JustinLee

At the very least it should be available for the iPad 2 since it has the same A5 processor. iPhone 4 would be bonus & I”m doubtful they will bring it to 3GS. Dual-core (at the minimum) is the future for all mobile devices

Ragamorph

@JustinLee
Here’s my thoughts on the subject… I think the 4 will NOT have the full Siri update but what it will get is this: a massive overhaul of the voice system. I believe we will be able to do the local or on iPhone only things such as setting alarms, adding stuff to reminders, and speech to text along with better voice controls such as: play “X” song, call “X”, and “read my text message”. I believe that hoping for anything maps, web, weather related will be asking too much of the iPhone 4 processor and it will not be included.
Thoughts?

smulji

@Ragamorph@JustinLee

Makes sense.

TechZoomOrg

@Ragamorph I agree. That sounds pretty much possible on iPhone 4 as you said considering the processor power.

me 3

i really hope i will be able to download this on my ipod touch 2G….

AOTU1991

It will not work for iPod Touch 1st Gen or 2nd Gen. iOS 5 is only for iPhone 3GS/4/4S, iPad 1/2, and iPod Touch 3rd Gen and 4th Gen.

TechZoomOrg

No @me 3 It is not possible as described by @AOTU1991 . iPod 2g is almost like history now – Sorry, but me too have one iPod 3g and cant do anything beyond 3.x

TechZoomOrg

@me 3@AOTU1991 i meant, i have one 2g.

AOTU1991

@TechZoomOrg@me 3 Yeah, I still have a 1st generation iPod touch. It is Sooooooo old lol.

JohnothanVincentCrook

135 is wrong double tapping the home button ALWAYS brings up the multitasking part

TechZoomOrg

@JohnothanVincentCrook changed,

smulji

Is one week enough time to test the GM build? As a pre-caution I would think they would take at least two weeks to test out and release iPhone 4S on the 21st

TechZoomOrg

@smulji exactly. I too think its very difficult. But the GM build looks much better. Yet, I have suggested my readers not to update on Oct 12th.

smulji

@TechZoomOrg Good to hear that the GM build looks much better. I’ll wait till the iOS 5.1 update before I upgrade my iP4. Hopefully the beta for iOS 5.1 gets released relatively soon after Oct 12th.

Finally a proud owner of a White iPhone 4S 16GB!!!! My only concern is that there’s a delay or lag using the Home Button.

When my phone is locked & screen is off, there’s a delay in turning the screen back on when I press the Home button. I know I’m not seeing things because when using my iPhone 4 with iOS 4.3.5 it almost instant, much faster.

Anyone else notice this? If so, could this be hardware or software related?

JustinLee

Is it true that the iOS 5 is releasing on oct 10?

TechZoomOrg

@JustinLee No, I don’t think it is possible to release iOS 5 on October 10th.

Reason 1] The Beta cycle is not yet complete because lot of things are yet to be fixed & are not working. Testing those with developers is essential before the public release.

Reason 2] iPhone event is confirmed for October 4th. I dont think Apple will release iOS 5 without completing one full week after the event because otherwise Media focus is shifted.

Apple will never do it Microsoft way similar to Windows Mobile update recently. Many phones refused to boot-up

JustinLee

@TechZoomOrg Now they announced that iOS 5 releasing on oct 12th? Should I update my iPhone 4 on that day?

TechZoomOrg

@JustinLee If you’re using factory unlocked or is on official carrier – you can upgrade. Recent GM build look stable but we’re expecting iOS 5.1 soon because its obvious that many users around the world will face one or two issues.

But if you’re using jailbroken and unlocked iPhone then you should wait further more. No ETA available for this as of now.

Hope this helps

DeaTaylor

y if on jailbroken should you wait to update? just curious, people say that but noone explains y!

TechZoomOrg

Super question @DeaTaylor

Jailbreaking for iOS 5 is limited at the moment. Its called tethered jailbreak. Which means, everytime you restart your phone – you must have it connected to a computer to boot it in jailbroken state. which is very inconvenient way of having a jailbroken phone. Thats all

TechZoomOrg

@DeaTaylor and . . there is no ultrasn0w unlock available once the phone is jailbroken whether tethered or un-tethered.

OriKushnir

On iOS 4 the FaceTime toggle was in the Phone settings but now it’s seperate

Mr. M

With iOS 5 beta 7 you can Wifi sync to multiple Mac/PCs.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

JohnothanVincentCrook

@Mr. M it may only be macs that ios 5 will sync to from what ive heard

Mr. M

@JohnothanVincentCrook well I have a PC so I’ll try

Mr. M

On iOS 5 beta 7 you can sync to multiple Mac or PCs

smulji

I am not a developer so I have not tried iOS 5 or iCloud. Can anyone comment on the level of stability & number of bugs thus far? Just curious to know how ready for prime time they are Thanks

TechZoomOrg

@smulji Speed is awesome. Interface looks like what we have seen on iPhone. So don’t expect an iPhone with Android looking UI. Many features as you could see to improve usability. It feels like we have been missing so many things over the years if u never jailbreaked your phone before.

I think, yes there are some bugs but I cant understand why are they not seeing another testing build!! iMessage, iCloud and Speech-to-text were partially working.

JohnMarks

I’m sadly still not seeing any hints to a few very much needed improvements that I’m sure many will agree on.
They seriously need to add a single step way to close ALL backgrounded programs without wearing out the home button. Just like in jailbroken phones running SBSettings.
Also, they need to think about making shortcuts available to the Springboard to allow people to quickly turn on/off the wifi, 3g and bluetooth when they want to save battery. Like when sleeping.
Anyone with a jailbroken phone will tell how handy these features are, and if apple wants to discourage jailbreaking they need to consider features such as these or at the very least allow developers to add these to the App Store.

TechZoomOrg

Very true @JohnMarks I am in total agreement with you on this

JohnMarks

Thanks.

I just restored my iPhone 4 because being jailbroken uses too much battery, but I miss those features already and it’s only been 24 hours. LOL

JohnothanVincentCrook

@JohnMarks nicely said i was reading that they tried to make jailbreaking illegal but failed because the courts over there said that it doesnt break copyright and it gives them more options to download apps and modify their phones which everyone has a right to do

JohnothanVincentCrook

*they is meant to be apple @JohnMarks

Icky chicken licks

ok any time i view this site on ios 5 beta 7 it crashes it didnt use to but ever since the related articles thing pops up whenever i get to the comments safari crashes

TechZoomOrg

@Icky chicken licks Very sorry for the inconvenience. Let me debug this on my office Mac tomorrow. Which OS are you using?

Icky chicken licks

@TechZoomOrg

xp but my ios is ios 5 beta 7 which is what crashes when i come here

JohnothanVincentCrook

ive realised also why in iOS 5 they’ve separated the music from the video (iPod) because in iOS 4 there is a bug in the ipod section from when u go to listen to music after watching a video after closing the ipod app

TechZoomOrg

Thanks @ @ShadyMcskinnsly .Many features were available on Android before WM Mango update. Thats not this post is about. Its about whats new coming to iOS 5

ShadyMcskinnsly

I’m not impressed most of the stuff on this list Windows phone has now are is getting with the new Mango update

135 is wrong double tapping the home button always brings up the multitasking part

JohnothanVincentCrook

@TechZoomOrg @ScottBishop

It’s normal because I have an iPhone 4 running iOS 4.3.5 and it does that to me

JohnothanVincentCrook

@TechZoomOrg yeah that’s what I read I think they’ve done it so the mobile network providers such as Optus (Australian mobile provider) or virgin mobile etc can test their apps eg my account to make sure it’ll work

TechZoomOrg

@JohnothanVincentCrook Yes, I would +1 that. They must have made 2 things bug-free 1] FaceTime & 2] iMessage . Thats where carriers come in picture.

Icky chicken licks

@JohnothanVincentCrook the carriers?

JohnothanVincentCrook

They’ve now released a beta version to the carriers so hopefully it’s gonna be very very soon

TechZoomOrg

@OriKushnir Should be in a month’s time from now

OriKushnir

@TechZoomOrg When will the final version will be available for all users?I can’t wail till lanch!

Icky chicken licks

@TechZoomOrg you said there was on sept 7th

TechZoomOrg

There is no event

JohnothanVincentCrook

well there would be the GM build but i hope this is the last beta because knowing apple with their competivity they wont let android get to far ahead with Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) and thats probaly pressuring them to get a move on with the final of iOS5 and they’ve been deactivating the accounts of the devs who are selling their UDIDS slots so people cant get the iOS unless they’re truly a dev

TechZoomOrg

@JohnothanVincentCrook@RohanPuram I think there will be Beta 8 or Gold Master build before the actual release. There are still many things needs to be fixed I guess. What say Johnothan?

JohnothanVincentCrook

@TechZoomOrg @RohanPuram ios5b7 expires on the 21st of this month that could be the realease of ios5

Icky chicken licks

what time is the apple event tonight do you know?

TechZoomOrg

@RohanPuram Thanks Rohan we can expect the launch by end of September or October second week (max.)

Only 8 days till apple releases the info on the iPod and iPhone and iPad I can’t waitttttttt!!¡!!!!!!

TechZoomOrg

@igulati23 Thanks. Glad you liked it.

Icky chicken licks

When do you guys think appple will release the details on the iPhone and iPod touch 5g?

Icky chicken licks

When do y

igulati23

Great list tushar…. Awesome job

Tushar Tajane

Thanks a ton. Glad you liked it

TechZoomOrg

@ScottBishop let me try.

ScottBishop

@TechZoomOrg @ScottBishop
It is a great feature if you are learning through a YouTube tutorial and youcan type at the same time or if your listening to music you don’t have you can play it in the background ! You can also use this on the iPhone , give it a try , Scotty

TechZoomOrg

@ScottBishop Is that a desired effect? it has to be a bug – I don’t have an iPad so couldn’t re-create this at my end.

ScottBishop

Hi, did you know on the ipad2 when you exit YouTube you can go into the multi task bar swipe to the volume controls and continue playing the audio from YouTube in the background??
Thanks
Scotty b

When do you think apple will release the details on the iPhone 5 and the iPod 5g???

Icky chicken licks

@TechZoomOrg
Thanks

TechZoomOrg

@Icky chicken licks updated

TechZoomOrg

@Icky chicken licks i was travelling on weekend here. so will do soon

Icky chicken licks

When are you going post details on beta6

ElliotCastielBeech

in beta 6 u can select what pics u want to save from the photo stream to ur camera roll

Tushar Tajane

Thanks will try and compile it soon.

TechZoomOrg

@Ragamorph not yet. & i doubt they will. lets wait until next beta to come soon.

Ragamorph

True, you can assign but each time you turn your car off then back on you have to tell the phone again to play through the dock connector not the A2DP enable Bluetooth device. I have been hoping for actual options within each connected Bluetooth device to tell it how to handle stuff like music, pics, contacts, etc.
Also, have you noticed if you can actually link Bluetooth to another phone and transfer stuff like documents, pics or emails? That woul be cool if apple finally opened up Bluetooth like other smartphones

Icky chicken licks

When do you think apple will announce the new feature of the iPod 5 and the iPhone 5?

@Ragamorph Not yet. but the last time i connected 4.3.3 to a car bluetooth – it just worked & it did not play any music until I played it via music.app. Glad u liked the article. cheers

Ragamorph

Have you come across a much needed option within the Bluetooth setting to control how the phone handles A2DP (AD2P, I always get it confused). For example, say you have your phone docked in your car and your A2DP enabled Bluetooth kit, are you finally able to tell the phone to permanently never play music through the kit. Thanks! Awesome article, BTW

Icky chicken licks

Any rumored release dats for the full version?

Icy chicken licks

Are there any rumored release date for the full version?

Tushar Tajane

Yes. Mostly on september 7th. Check 3rd post on homepage

TechZoomOrg

@icey590 Added above. Thanks

icey590

With iOS 5 beta 5 on the iPod touch 4th Gen, if you enable ‘change with buttons’ under sounds in settings, when you use a volume button it now calls it ‘sound effects’ instead of ‘ringer’

HenrikLangesOndeTvillingesøn

It says on appøes icloud page that you can actually rip your own cds and then add them to the cloud allowing for 256 kbps upgrade and free download from any other device. The way I see it, ghat means you can finally get your cd collection digitally signed and delete and re-download as.you see fit. Check out th

TechZoomOrg

@Lightboy it is possible to do using apps and universal signal transmitting phone cases. Including it within iPhone OS will only be helpful when all home accessories start accepting standard Bluetooth 4. Read more about Bluetooth 4. It would be awesome.

TechZoomOrg

@ak4mc.us yes

Lightboy

I would like to see remote control from an iphone of the ipad’s Music (or iPod) app. Crazy that it isn’t there already and I think the potential of more “home automation” within the devices hasn’t been explored yet, its a huge opportunity to make the platform more compelling in my view.

ak4mc.us

“(Ignore bullet number on left. I had to keep it to get continued pointer numbers. Cheers )”

I gather you’re using a CMS to generate the list. If I’m not mistaken, having access to the raw HTML would allow you to replace the < li > tag with < p > and as long as you didn’t close the < ol > tag there the list numbering would pick up with the next < li >.

I think.

TechZoomOrg

@ngbrian905 it works from beta 4 onwards

ngbrian905

Do you know anything about wifi sync with windows? I can only get the phone to stay on iTunes sometimes when I unplug. Even then, it will run into problems syncing over wifi.

TechZoomOrg

@ngbrian905 true

ngbrian905

If you swipe left on the camera app, it goes into the pictures. Swiping all the way right goes back to the camera!

TechZoomOrg

Yes, only in iOS 5 and onward. It should be released somewhere in September or October along with iPhone 5 mostly.

sowmyadaytoday

Do Icloud feature applicable to ios 5.And when it is going to release if any one know pls post

zman5020

@TechZoomOrg @zman5020 Yes, that’s a good point I guess either options would be nice to have. Any idea?

TechZoomOrg

@zman5020 did you mean password lock? restrictions which is under settings? or hide those apps?

zman5020

Will the new IOS 5 have the ability to lock other applications other than the standard ones that are built in like YouTube, Safari, App store and iTunes. What do you think/know?

TechZoomOrg

@nyuterra Correct. but not on iPhone and iPods.

nyuterra

Some of these features, like the ability to dismiss the keyboard on the iPad, already exist in the current version of iOS.

JamesDarnell

When will the homescreen be able tO be put in landscape mode? I been wanted that instead of the sucky jailbroken version

Tushar Tajane

Good point James. Let’s see if it really happens, but no signs as of now.

TechZoomOrg

@OriKushnir Thanks a ton OriKushnir. Glad you liked it.

OriKushnir

Nice list and awesome job Tushar

Added it to bookmarks

TechZoomOrg

@matt7sd Yes – I have listed it above

matt7sd

I’m running iOS 5 beta 2 and taking a picture with the headphones volume up button is possible and works quite well. If you take a lot of pictures with your phone and have some sort of a tripod this could be very useful.

GavrielMickey

While using VoiceOver if you change the volume using the buttons on the side of your iOS device then it makes a ‘Put Put Put’ sound like when you change the volume using the keyboard on a Mac.

TechZoomOrg

@macahi Well said

macahi1961

I’d like to see simple things like being able to arrange the icons without having them fly all over the place. Let us put them (within a grid is fine) where we want them, with empty spaces where we want them.

Allow us configuration options. I’d much rather they’d spent the time building in options to existing features than adding features. I hate having all those extra inboxes listed before my email accounts. I want the option to make them gone.

I have 4 emails accounts, and I always have to scroll past those damned inboxes to get to my accounts.

I also hate that the default behavior is to go into the ‘primary’ inbox, instead of simply showing the list of all of my emails. Let us change that.

When you first open safari, it’s really annoying that it goes to the bookmarks by default. Let us turn that off.

Some of the new features are cool, but it would be so much better if you allowed us options to what we already have.

JohnothanVincentCrook

@TechZoomOrg anytime

TechZoomOrg

@JohnothanVincentCrook Thanks for confirmation. Updated it above.

JohnothanVincentCrook

U have the YouTube feature wrong from the lockscreen. When u double tap the home button it brings up the iPod controls and the camera option (take a photo from the home screen)

@Michael_Blank @Dylancihi52 iPhone 4 doesn’t have the hardware for Bluetooth 3.0, that’s like trying to get a phone without 3G signal to connect to a 3G mast.

HenryWatsonO2

Another feature is the ability to delete apps that are still downloading. This was one very annoying thing that we couldn’t do in iOS 4.

TechZoomOrg

@nimxx Yeop. Totally agree! I hope they do something about it by the final release.

TechZoomOrg

@nimxx

nimxx

Apple forgot 1 feature: attach any files from within the mail app, like documents, PDFs, etc. Hence eliminating the limitation of only 1 attachment per mail, if not pictures. If they add that the iPad would be perfect and I could throw my laptop on the trash!

adtjd

Is RSA ID really new with iOS5? Had this already with iOS4

AaronHolmes

Still no way to view photo meta-data from within the photo album? :((

jfaughnan

But does it fix the problem with calendar appointment color assignment? Not only can the color assignments not be controlled, if you sync with more than one server the assignments overlap.

TechZoomOrg

@Smudgyboar Yeop. FB is not fully integrated. & yes I removed the double-tap for upload. (How could I? lol) There is a shortcut. Let me find out and re-write it again. Thanks.

Smudgyboar

I don’t think there is Facebook integration besides being able to download the app from the app-store. And also the double tapping the home button on a YouTube video only brings up the task switcher

Smudgyboar

There is no such place in the settings app as “Services”

Dylancihi52

@Michael_Blank I seen something about is being 3.0 but I forgot the website:/

Michael_Blank

@Dylancihi52
Yes I heard that too, it works great with the Ford SYNC system as well as other systems too!!

MY QUESTION IS THIS:
I know that Bluetooth 3.0 is the most current reversion out, however I think the last version Apple was using was Bluetooth 2.1 (Why I have no clue).

CAN ANYONE, verfyi the possible new updated version of Bluetooth Apple will be using in IOS 5.0.

Because Buletooth 3.0 standard can push out HD Video/Audio I hear!

However I would just like it to be able to push out Text SMS Mesages:

DOES ANYONE – know if the new IOS includes that Bluetooth Feature?

Thanks!

Tushar Tajane

I read about Bluetooth 4 that was supposed to be available at end of 2010. I was so waiting & still waiting
The feature you’re talking about is implementation of bluetooth data by the receiver hardware / software I guess, isn’t it?

Dylancihi52

You can now play your iTunes over your car stereo? iOS 5 can transfer audio information like album, track, and artist names over Bluetooth.

TechZoomOrg

Thanks Karl

shryx86

Thanks for the info. I will install the Twitter app to see if any of these options appear. At the moment nothing appears in the edit contact screen to include any social networking.This is Drew just to let you know. Thanks again

shryx86

Thanks for the info. I don’t have the Twitter app installed because I am not an avid Twitter user. However, I am downloading it to see if these features appear once its installed.

Michael

I did cone across another feature on the web for IOS 5 , the “Find my iPhone” app is no longer, it’s an embedded feature apart of iCould on the settings in the general settings.

Karl

Pretty sure I haven seen this before, but it looks like you can now add folders within mail.app? I’ve just added a folder on my MobileMe account. Nice write up, been looking for something like this, added to my reading list! :-p

Michael

Tushar;

Just wanted to check in, has anyone figured out my question above?

Thanks!

Jordan Book

I found the Service menu that was mentioned earlier and in the pictures online. It’s not full integration like Twitter, it just lets you add your friends’ usernames to their contacts.

If you edit a contact, and choose “Add Field”, then click Twitter, and start typing a name, it will automatically drop down the field for Facebook, then Flickr, Linkedin, etc. Alternatively if you choose “Profile” in “Add Field” instead of Twitter, it will start with Facebook.

I hope they offer more support, but it looks like this is all that’s available at the moment. Twitter still appears to be the only one with system-wide integration.

jaytrixz

@Drew:
You can see it in your Contacts.app when you add/edit it. Just tap add field in the bottom part of every contact and then you’ll see Twitter field there. Type anything and a new field will appear for Facebook, etc.
@Michael:
There’s no other option with email signatures. It’s the same with previous iOS versions.

Tushar Tajane

@jaytrixz: Nice info

Jordon Jackson

I found one that doesn’t seem to be listed any where. It’s a change within the camera app itself. A new gesture has been added. While you’re in the camera app, just swipe from the left and you will instantly move to your photo album. And to get back to taking pictures, swipe from the right until you get back to the camera. Neat little feature I suppose.

Tushar Tajane

Thanks for the input Jordon
I think I have that listed above.
Cheers!

Michael

Can anyone check as see if in the “Signature” option in settings for Mail; has any additional options, like multiple signatures option so you can have specific one per email account?

Also is it an option to have a HTML signature yet?

Thanks!

Tushar Tajane

Will let you know asap Michael

Drew

Thanks for the quick response to my question. I’m not trying to make this a tech help post, so I’ll ask for help once more.

You said the social media settings were in settings > services. I don’t see services in the menu. Is there something I’m missing? I’m running iOS 5 on an iPhone 4 not jailbroken.

jaytrixz

You can delete songs in the Music.app by swiping it under the Songs category.

You can view a person’s Twitter page in Contacts if Twitter for iPhone is installed. Even view that person’s tweet.

RSA ID is now available too when setting up VPN.

Tushar Tajane

Thanks jaytrixz

Drew

Great list. I’ve been looking for the Facebook integration option in the settings app, but so far no luck. Can anyone tell me where this is located?

http://www.emstudios.in Tushar Tajane

Thanks Drew.
Its under Settings > Services

Tanner

Nice list! I’ve been looking for a list like this for days but you were the first one I found. Thanks! Keep us updated!

Tushar Tajane

Thanks for your comments Tanner
I’m glad that you liked it.
Have a great time. Keep visiting
Cheers

Rob.

wow. Someone’s been busy! haha. Nice work, man 

Tushar Tajane

Hahaha
Thanks Rob . Cheers!

Kero

deleting music tracks was only from playlist but never complete deleting of the music track file …. u previously would need iTunes to permanently delete it